Over the holiday season, I decided go on snowy staycation. I had made the trek home to Vancouver to spend some quality time with friends and family, whom I haven’t gotten to see nearly enough in the past 2-3 years of being abroad often. Since I was in town, I wanted to make the most […]
I’m often asked how I afford to travel as much as I do. First, let me say that my travel is self-funded. I don’t have rich parents. I’m not secretly dating an Arabic prince or a Chinese real estate mogul. I didn’t cash out of options from a successful start-up. I’m a normal person who […]
Ahh, San Francisco. Iconic San Francisco. The Golden Gate Bridge, Twin Peaks, Dolores Park, social progress, bohemian culture, fog and more fog, and a sea of impossibly intelligent millennials making 4 times as much money as their peers nation wide. In the spring of 2016, on Easter weekend, I booked it south from Vancouver to San […]
“I don’t want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I’m not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it’s like…It’s like Tiffany’s. […] It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to […]
Or, Why I Am On The Brink of Becoming An Expat It was one of those Sundays in early January when you wake up to bright, stark sunlight streaming through your blinds. My fellow Vancouverites might know the one. It’s been grey and dreary for months. You open your curtains to a brave new world and see, […]
There’s a part of traveling that people don’t talk about: perhaps the hardest part. Yes, we live in a global society where words like “travel” and “wanderlust” and sayings like “not all those who wander are lost” are thrown about so much they have become cringe-worthy clichés.
We’ve been searching for so long To find the place where we could belong We always dreamed of better things to come And turned our faces towards the sun We follow the light that we see in the dark And keep on going till it catches spark I believe there’s a change to come We’ll […]
Guys, it’s time. I’m coming home. It’s been half-a-year, which is simultaneously an eternity and far too short of a time to be gone. I wasn’t sure how long I’d be away, though I figured until at least the new year but it turns out I accomplished what I set out to sooner than expected. […]
First Night In Barcelona My travel companion Jenni and I arrived late evening in Barcelona, our 2nd choice of city on the Tomorrowland Discover Europe tour. It was midnight by the time we found our hotel and settled into our Spanish-inspired room. We were starving at by this point and due to the late hour, our […]
I met my friend on a hot day outside of a train station an hour west of Rome. He is a First Officer for Royal Caribbean and one of the perks of being friends with sailors is that they will take you cruising with them for essentially free (although you may end up in their cabin if […]
The Tomorrowland Hotel and Welcome Package Amsterdam was the first of city that I picked for the Tomorrowland Discover Europe tour. Discover Europe provides the option of 4 different packages with a choice of 4 or 5 cities. Brussels (near where Tomorrowland is held) and Paris are mandatory options. The other options are Amsterdam, Barcelona, […]
Rather a Boeing 777…and not knowing when I’ll be back again. So I’m really leaving. After years of itching to travel again and months of anticipation starting when I bought tickets to Tomorrowland in February, I’m finally here. At the airport. Waiting for my flight to Europe. I’m ecstatic, terrified, and sad at the same […]